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Breakfast of Champions Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from Breakfast of Champions
01
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We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kilgore Trout
character
mental health
concept
02
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kilgore Trout
character
trying too hard to be friendly
ᐧ
not thinking
concepts
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It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
ᐧ
Kilgore Trout
characters
worthlessness
ᐧ
will to live
concepts
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The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
mental nonsense
concept
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
charm
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effects of charm
concepts
06
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The big show is inside my head.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
mental games
concept
07
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
purpose in life
ᐧ
breaking point
concepts
08
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In nonsense is strength.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
strength
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nonsense
concepts
09
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Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
dealing with others
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dealing with hateful people
concepts
10
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Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You’re sixteen, And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover's family
character
being sixteen
ᐧ
starting high school
concepts
11
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
harm of chemicals
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trying to improve life
concepts
12
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Goodbye blue Monday.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
depressing
ᐧ
mondays
concepts
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Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dwayne Hoover
character
reason
ᐧ
unreasonable
concepts
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Dr. Breed
character
knowledge
ᐧ
power of knowledge
concepts
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If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah - ain’t it the truth?”
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Robo Karabekian
character
making friends
ᐧ
being agreeable
concepts
16
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
charm
concept
17
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
hatred of work
concept
18
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There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
order
ᐧ
adapting to chaos
concepts
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
being too agreeable
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independent thinking
concepts
20
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Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
Kurt Vonnegut
author
Breakfast of Champions
book
Kurt Vonnegut
character
conversations
ᐧ
quoting television
concepts
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Kilgore Trout
trying too hard to be friendly
not thinking
worthlessness
Kurt Vonnegut
will to live
mental nonsense
charm
effects of charm
mental games
purpose in life
breaking point
strength
nonsense
Dwayne Hoover
dealing with others
dealing with hateful people
Dwayne Hoover's family
being sixteen
starting high school
harm of chemicals
trying to improve life
depressing
mondays
reason
unreasonable
knowledge
Dr. Breed
power of knowledge
making friends
Robo Karabekian
being agreeable
hatred of work
order
adapting to chaos
being too agreeable
independent thinking
conversations
quoting television
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